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Olivia Jul 2021
Dear Nana,

I miss you
I miss waking up to your voice
I miss making you tea
I miss our late night desserts
I miss your comfort and words
I miss your love stories and hugs
I miss your worries and calls
I miss combing your hair
I miss your warmth, love and care
I
miss
you
Olivia Jan 2019
I thank God for another year of life, for keeping you here longer each day.

I remember as a child I would pray my heart out to keep you safe forever, “God don’t take her away from me,” I’d say.

You told me at age 50 you prayed the same “God keep me alive till she’s grown,” you’d say.

28 years later and he hasn’t let us down.

It hasn’t been the easiest of years but God please forgive me of my sins.

Not today she’d say, not today.
Olivia Jan 2018
There’s always a world within you,
A whole new different hue,
Don’t fret about the time you have,
Just enjoy the days of being alive,
You will blossom and flourish!
Your past is like a seed that will undoubtedly make you grow and flourish,
Dream about poetry and art,
But don’t let those dreams get away,
Make art and poetry your ultimate bae!
C'est la vie is what they say!
It’s life and it’s your life,
Make it what you want and make it sway!
Olivia Jan 2018
Feel
You can't hoard feelings forever

You can either choose
to let them escape
or
continue to leave them screaming within you
There is always breaking point

Don't ruin your sanity
Be brave enough to open up
Olivia Sep 2019
I can’t breathe
You kiss me good bye and I whisper
I love you
You hug me tight & I close my eyes
Tears stroll down my face
As I wake
It aches me to know you aren’t there.
I knew this day would come
I didn’t want it to end
Please don’t leave
Farewell my lover & friend.
Olivia Jan 2018
Don’t forget that there is a balance between Growing and Giving. You can’t expect to grow if you give all your pieces away. You’ll only begin to lose yourself in the process.

So, in the midst of giving pieces of yourself to the people around you, never forget that you too exist...
Olivia Aug 2018
You may not be with someone
But at this moment in time
You suddenly you realise that at one point you were
and that in itself is a testament

although it didn’t last indefinitely
they were there
and they cared!
and you cared genuinely!

just knowing that
that someone at one point in time
felt something a little close to love for me
well that
that fills me up immensely.
It’s been a few months since Iv’ve posted. Anything new. The one thing I love about reading my poems is that you can look back on days that you were the most lonely and think to yourself “wow! I’ve really come a long way”.
Olivia Jan 2018
She pulled the flower sharply from where it blossomed.

I’ve never wanted to curl up into a ball of sadness for taking away something so precious.

We talk about saving the earth of it’s living beings yet here we are tearing away at its life without any hard feelings.

Wishing to forget and never planning something through cold sweat.

But all she wanted was to be healed as much as the earth wanted to be saved from any regret
Olivia Sep 2018
I dreamt of you lastnight

It was one of those dreams you know?

The ones you never want to wake up from
Olivia Jan 2018
Madness

Never
apologize
for feeling too
recklessly,

the greatest lessons
are
always
learned
through

Madness
Madness
Olivia Apr 2021
Tell me more about the depths of the Ocean, than the surface of the moon
Olivia Jan 2018
There are moments

those little bursts of happiness

you wish could last a lifetime.

Then there’s those longer moments of sadness

you wish would leave

before bedtime.
Olivia Mar 2018
Poetry is a place of sanity
where we happily revive the pain
leading our hearts and minds valiantly
again and again..
Happy World Poetry day
Olivia Jan 2018
Write through your wounds,
These words you inscribe in you are like the finest bandages,
they will heal you faster then anybody ever could.
Olivia Jan 2018
i couldn't fathom the thought.
but I never wanted to let myself be blinded or consumed by anyone who was fixated on someone else.
Olivia Feb 2021
Time pervaded with regrets
is your biggest enemy

We are all just but
longing for mercy

Looking for a way to escape
the inescapable.

Yet we stand here
as if we are

Unbreakable
Olivia Apr 2018
My Heart has a mind of its own
Always ignoring my head
and every chance of pain
When it decides to feel again
it revives every emotion within me
It’s like a prison but a prison
that I choose to be in

- The heart wins every time.
Olivia Feb 2018
I am in love with being alone
And oh! how wonderful it is to explore how unlonely you can be on your own,

But there is a mighty difference,
One that we all face,
When loneliness hits us at the wrong time and place,

My heart sinks and I can’t breathe,
Memories come rushing back to me
So much on my mind,
Who am I
Where do I belong,
The future is all I think of
Everything seems so wrong

I keep my head up
I tell myself to breathe,
You can do it just be strong,

I am okay again,
But I fear for these days,

When solitude is what I crave,
But loneliness takes its place.
A quick poem i thought of during my lonely hours. Still in progress. I am not sure if anyone else has a problem with editing there poems on this or is it just me ?
Olivia Sep 2019
It hurts,
thinking about you,
Smelling your scent on your t-shirt,
Knowing you aren’t around anymore,
It hurts.
Olivia Feb 2018
Pain can be Pleasant
Pain can be satisfying
The way it prepares us for the worst
and best times of our lives

It sharpens our knowledge
opens our minds
Exposes our feelings of fear
While teaching us to be fearless

strengthens our hearts
Awakens our soul
teaches us to be whole

you can't fix pain
But you can control the way pain fixes you

the only thing that is more quintessential than pain is the joy it brings you when you overcome it
This is only an excerpt to how I feel pain is profoundly beneficial to our souls.
Olivia Feb 2018
Never skirt the truth
If I had not learnt from the past
This feeling would not have come to me so fast
I contemplate desires as my anxiety kicks in
The night seems lonely
How do I cope within
Almost imperceptible but so evident
Never skirt the truth
Eventually it becomes an impediment
You deserve something real
Something luminescent someone who makes you feel incandescent
Never skirt the truth
I can feel it in my bones
My intuition is what keeps me grown
I am not a fool to the unknown
Olivia Jan 2018
I wish time would fly
a little faster

To a time
when my heart is pain free
and
my mind
doesn't think of

you.
Olivia Feb 2018
Why is it that pain clouds our judgments
it awakens our bad habits,
I was afraid of how I felt without you
and the only way I thought I could find myself again was through bad habits,
I was wrong
without you, before you, I was whole
Do you know what feels more pleasing than overcoming bad habits
The sweet feeling of satiation in knowing how worthy you were
In knowing I deserve to be whole again
In knowing I was worthy, and you,
You were a bad habit
a flame that’s been finally extinguished
And I am whole again
Olivia Oct 2020
Wrapped up in my natural surroundings
around my home that has grown over the last 59 years.

I remember my Nana this week,
it's been a year since she’s left and I am still emotionally bereft.

I feel her in her favourite place,
her beautiful garden, now my saving grace.

I am wrapped in her densely rich oasis filled with colorful flowers and fruit trees that her hands planted in their place.

I miss you Nana but I know whichever field I walk through or wherever a greenhouse I plant, you will be not far from me.

— The End —